Preparation: 1h - Cooking: 10 min Pomodoro Fresco Pasta Salad - Made with Fresh tomatoes and herbs, this is a fresh and light pasta salad that is the perfect side for any picnic or BBQ. Major plus...NO MAYO! Howdy y'all! How was your 4th of July? It has been so dang hot here. 90 degrees...

Cooking: 15 min Pasta with a creamy rich sun-dried tomato pesto sauce is the perfect weeknight comfort food. Add some Italian sausage to make it heartier, or use vegetable stock to keep it vegetarian. Either way it is a meal your whole family will love. I have been having...

Preparation: 10 min - Cooking: 20 min Skillet meals are a perfect for a busy family and this One-Pot Chipotle Chicken Taco Pasta will be your families new BFF! This post is sponsored by McCormick in conjunction with a social media campaign through Sunday Supper LLC. All opinions are my own....

Preparation: 15 min - Cooking: 20 min Are you tired of running all day long only to stress out over making dinner? Well my friends, let me introduce you to your new best friend, One Pot Bacon Cheeseburger Pasta! Lately I have been feeling like there is not enough time in the day to get everything...

Preparation: 10 min - Cooking: 20 min A hearty w eekday meal doesn't have to take forever to make, or come out of a box. This One-Pot Mexican Chicken Pasta i s hearty and bursting with all of your favorite M e xican flavors, plus it will be done and on your table in 30 minutes. W ith the added...

Preparation: 15 min - Cooking: 35 min Since I moved to Washington I rarely go out to dinner. A) Because I am a food blogger and would rather make a dish VS pay for it (Although getting out of the kitchen once in a while is a must) B) Because I live in a teeny tiny town with very few options,...

Cooking: 15 min Your Weekday Suppers don't have to be difficult or boring. This pasta dish is on the table in no time and will fill you up PLUS please your taste buds! Pesto has become a bit of a touchy subject at my house lately. I am, and always have been, a HUGE fan...

Preparation: 20 min - Cooking: 1h15 I was sooooo excited when I got my Secret Recipe Club assignment for this month! I was assigned Manu's Menu and I have known Manuela, as a fellow food blogger, for several years now. She is such a sweetheart and makes the most amazing food!! Every time...

Preparation: 15 min - Cooking: 25 min Ohhh my darling Summer. Please don't go! I will miss your tomatoes and sweet corn so!! Is it just me, or does anyone else find that the closer it comes to end of Summer, the more your gorge yourself on all of the fabulous fresh produce you will not have...

Do you ever find yourself a bit shell shocked after Thanksgiving is all said an done? You know, you wake up on Friday and open your refrigerator door. Only to be welcomed by an overwhelming amount of leftover turkey, stuffing, and sweet potato casserole!...

I am not a big breakfast fan. At least not of the time frame that breakfast is supposed to be eaten in. I am more of a brunch kind of girl. My kids grew up with Cherrios and Mini Wheats through the week. But on the weekends I loved to cook up something...

This was (again) one of those meals that was born from what I like to refer to as "Ingredient Roulette". I take several ingredients from my fridge and pantry and kind of do an "eenie meanie miney mo". Then try to come up with something to make with them....

For some reason I am completely obsessed with caprese anything. I have made Open Faced Chicken Caprese Sandwiches, Caprese Meatball Subs, and now this Chicken Caprese Pasta. Seriously I get so excited when I come up with another way to incorporate my little...

I was trying to come up with a side dish for a Mexican Spiced Chicken I was making (that post will have to wait until I can get a good picture, the one I took was awful!) and I remembered seeing a bunch of avocado pasta pins on Pintrest. I love avocados...

This was one of those pantry/fridge clean out recipes. I hadn't made it out to the store and Kevin was too tired to stop on the way home. When he came in the door he said he was starving and asked what was for dinner. I was quick to begin the search through...

I have been trying to come up with some new side dishes that include ingredients that you might not think about using together. I of course have a difficult time not using pasta or rice because, well I a just a huge pasta lover. Rice runs a close second....

Last week, for Food Star Friday, I made Giada De Laurentiis's Shrimp Fra Diavolo. But I wanted to make a pasta to go with it (of course since I am a pastaholic). I knew I had lemon and basil, and figured they would play well together along with the flavors...

Happy Labor Day everyone! I was trying to think of something different than my usual BBQ regulars. I knew we were grilling steaks and making a spinach salad but I wanted a pasta salad, because well, I love pasta. I decided to go to my Southern California...

This was another one of those meals that you just come up with on the fly. I kept trying to think of something for dinner and nothing was jumping out at me. Do I want fish, chicken, steak, pasta? So I decided to throw a few things in a hat and just draw...

It has been a while since I have had school age kids but I still remember the rush of getting kids to soccer, football, getting homework done, and getting a good meal on the table as quickly as possible. I mean if it wasn't for quick school night meals...